Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.

We must regain our vision and hope and move our country forward on an agenda of peace and justice.

As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.

Politics is not about power.

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply to improve the quality of human life while at the same time respecting the natural environment which sustains it: 'Not a heaven on earth but a better earth on earth.' This is not at all a timid agenda, far from it. The work ahead of us is enormous!

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.